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– By J.W. Fox – WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW It took over two weeks to digest everything I saw in Avengers: Infinity War, the only movie with more hype than the next Star Wars movie. Nearly every Marvel character is featured in this triumphant, awesome, epic, funny, heartbreaking first part of a two parter. To put […]

– By J.W. Fox – Pride and Prometheus is a genre mashup of two Victorian classics that have nothing to do with one another. Taking characters from arguably the first science fiction novel and introducing them to the ladies of Jane Austen’s classic romance, is the crossover you didn’t know you wanted. The story is […]

– By J.W. Fox – It is an old but true cliché: the book is always better than the movie. When I read Ready Play One, I knew it could make a great movie but Hollywood would never be able to make it. The licenses alone would keep it tied up, or force them to […]

– By J.W. Fox – John Kessel’s The Moon and the Other is very much a work of social science fiction, with all the pros and cons that go with that label. At times it is reminiscent of Heinlein, with characters having influential roles in Lunar politics, giving speeches, and lecturing one another on […]

– By J.W. Fox – WARNING: SPOILERS OF SERIES FINALE FOLLOW While the Star Wars saga marches on with Episodes 8 and 9, Disney is filling in some of the gaps with its Star Wars Stories and its animated series. Star Wars Rebels was their first, tying into to the events before A New Hope […]

– By J.W. Fox – WARNING: SPOILERS FOR SEASON ONE FINALE Discovery ended the first season largely the way it began, as a tribute to aggression. It is so foreign from the rest of the Star Trek franchise I truly wonder if the writers ever watched the earlier shows. If they did, they clearly did […]

– By J.W. Fox – Andy Weir is one of my favorite new writers. The self-published author not only explains technical details concisely and effectively, his first two novels are also showing he is a capable storyteller. The Martian was a fantastic novel that was turned into an excellent movie. Artemis is slightly different in that […]

– By J.W. Fox – WARNING: SPOILERS FOLLOW Netflix did not promote Altered Carbon as much as that new Cloverfield movie. That might have been a mistake. The first season of the unique new sci-fi show has a Blade Runner feel combined with good ole’ fashion Bruce Willis-style shoot’em up action. There are a […]

After a long and unexpected hiatus, Prescient Sci Fi has returned. Did you miss us? Don’t lie. …Yeah, we were gone for like three months. You didn’t notice? Oh. I see. Well… moving along, Along with a nice long break, some changes are coming. Prescient will still be a blog for nerds but will […]

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Great science fiction is more than just cool gadgets, weird aliens, or spaceships.

It is about creating stunning visions of what could be and of what our lives could become. It provides a unique perspective on the challenges we face today or may face in the future. Science fiction allows us to explore new possibilities, problem’s we’ve never considered, or terrify us with unimagined nightmares.